As highly skilled healthcare professionals, MRTs and ENPs are always learning. The Continuing Competence Program (CCP) allows members to maintain a tangible record of how their knowledge and skills have evolved over time and explore opportunities for further professional growth. The current CCP cycle ends August 31, 2021, and regulated members must ensure they have completed their required hours of learning activities and logged them along with their learning plan and self-assessment in My CCP by this date.

Earlier this year, the College’s Council, Competence Committee and Registrar considered the challenges of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and agreed to adjust the minimum learning hours required for the 2020-21 CCP cycle (September 1, 2020, to August 31, 2021). Members are required to complete 12 learning hours if they hold general registration for the entire cycle, or one hour of learning for every month they hold general registration. Detailed information about the CCP is available in the Continuing Competence Program Information Guide (please note the required hours referenced in the guide do not reflect the one-time change made for this cycle).

It is required by the Health Professions Act (HPA) and the Medical Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologists Profession Regulation (the Regulation) that all regulated members comply with the requirements of the CCP. Every year, the College conducts two types of audits to monitor member compliance: the CCP Audit and the CCP Analytics Verification.

The CCP Audit is conducted to verify that a member’s reflective practice review includes the required number of learning hours, satisfactory learning activities and acceptable self-reflections. Up to 20% of the College’s membership may be randomly selected for this audit, and members will be notified in July if they have been selected. An audited member will be asked to submit their reflective practice review on September 1 for review by the Competence Committee, which is made up of MRTs and ENPs from across the province.

The CCP Analytics Verification is conducted every September to verify that every regulated member has entered information into each of the three components of the CCP (self-assessment, learning plan and records of learning activities) on the My CCP platform for the cycle that just ended. Through this process, the College is not able to see any detail of the member’s CCP and so the member’s reflective practice review remains confidential. The College will contact all members who have not completed their CCP. Members will not be able to renew their registration if their CCP is incomplete.

The College is here to help you with any questions or issues you may have with the CCP or the My CPP platform. Please feel welcome to contact Linda O’Hara, Director, Education and Competence, at lohara@acmdtt.com, and she will be happy to guide you through the components of the program and the process for completing it. More information about the CCP is also available on the Continuing Competence section of the College website.